Basin installation



Jan. 27, 1959 w. H. BOWDEN BASIN INSTALLATION Filed Sept. 20, 1957 FIG.I

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ATTORNEY United States Patent BASIN INSTALLATION William H. Bowden,Alliance, Ohio, assignor to Alliance Ware, Inc., Alliance, Ohio, acorporation of Delaware Application September 20, 1957, Serial No.685,222

1 Claim. (Cl. 4-187) This invention relates to the installation of asink or lavatory or other basin of porcelain enameled ware.

The basin is located in an opening in a support. The support mayentirely surround the basin, or it may support the basin on only two orthree sides. There is a rim on the basin which extends over the support,and brackets extending downwardly from the rim of the basin extendthrough slots in the support. The basin is held firmly in place bydriving wedges into holes in the brackets near their base.

The invention will be further described in connection with theaccompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a plan view of a lavatorylocated in a shelf support;

Fig. 2 is a section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4 is a plan view across the top of the edge of the support on theline 4-4 of Fig. 2 and rotated through 90 degrees.

The shelf or other support 1 is provided with an opening in which thelavatory 2 or other basin is located. This basin is made of sheet metalor the like which is porcelain enameled on its upper surface. Suchenamelware is apt to chip if metal or other hard material is drawn tightagainst it when it is installed. The rim 3 on the basin extendsoutwardly from the edge 5 of the opening over the support 1. In thedrawings the support is indicated as composed of wood 6 covered by vinylor other covering 7. The extreme edge 10 of the basin is bent downwardlyto make a line contact with the top of the support.

Right-angled wedges 12 are welded to the underside of the rimperpendicularly to the edge of the basin. These wedges fit in slots 13cut into the opening perpendicularly to the edge thereof. There areholes 14 in the wedges near the bottom thereof. These holes aregenerally, but not necessarily, elongated. Their tops are somewhat abovethe bottom of the support so that when the wedges 15 2,870,458 PatentedJan. 27, 1959 are driven through the holes, they are wedged between thebottom of the hole and the undersurface of the support.

A principal advantage in this type of installation is the fact that thewedges can readily be driven into place. Oftentimes the space under thesupport is very limited, and it is difficult for a Workman to get intothe space to tighten bolts and nuts, etc. The wedges parallel the bellof the basin and can be installed even though the space around the basinis very limited. I

The drawing illustrates the installation of a lavatory, but a sink orother basin is similarly installed. Ordinarily the contour of the basinwill be generally rectangular, but it may be round or oval or any othershape. The edge of the rim of the basin is preferably directeddownwardly against the support so that the balance of the rim is liftedabove the support, away from any irregularities in the surface thereof.Furthermore, with the rim directed downwardly against the support, thewedges draw a tight seal between the edge of the basin and the supportso that water, etc. do not seep under the edge of the mm.

The wedge may be any suitable shape. It is preferably quite long andtriangular. The bracket is preferably rightangled with the horizontalportion welded to the underside of the rim. The hole in the wedge may becircular, or any shape, but is advantageously rectangular and locatedvertically to accommodate a fiat wedge.

The invention is covered in the claim which follows.

What I claim is:

The basin installation which includes a support with an opening thereinto accommodate the bowl of a basin, :1 metal basin which is porcelainenameled and is provided with a rim extending outwardly from all sidesof the bowl over the opening toward the support, the rim having a raisedborder with the inner edge thereof over the open ing and the outer edgethereof turned down toward the support, slots in the support extendingaway from the opening on all sides thereof, brackets welded to theunderside of said border of the rim which extend through the respectiveslots, a hole in each bracket which starts above the bottom of the slotin which it is located and extends below it, and a wedge in each holewhich is braced between the bottom of the hole and the bottom of thesupport on both sides of the slot in which the bracket is locatedwhereby the downwardly turned edge of the rim is held in sealing contactwith the support.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS2,461,648 Macleod Feb. 15, 1949 2,505,828 Fox May 2, 1950 2,584,581Harris Feb. 5, 1952

